A staggering 1 in 4 Australians today live with incontinence. For women, particularly those who have ever had a baby, the statistics are even higher, climbing to 1 in 3 mums.
“I am one of those women,...

Bev Killick is a Melbourne-based actress, comedian, writer, singer, mother-of-two and our Continence Champion. She talks to us about her experience of incontinence and how she deals with it.
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Anja Christoffersen was only 17 when she first walked in Amsterdam Fashion Week. She’s now focusing on another kind of modelling—being a role model for young people with chronic bladder and bowel conditions....

Picture the scene: You’ve finally got your non-sleeping toddler to sleep after a mammoth night of wakings and as you look at them all angel-face snoozing, you feel your nose twitch and that sharp inhalation of...

Greg Ryan was born without an anal opening, a congenital abnormality known as Imperforate Anus which affects 30,000 babies around the world each year. Without surgical intervention at birth, Greg would have died...

Author and prostate cancer survivor Alan White shares his story about managing incontinence post-surgery
Being diagnosed with prostate cancer once in a lifetime is bad enough. In 2011, after my yearly...

Anne-Marie Howarth was 31 years old when she suffered a motorbike accident which left her with a spinal cord injury, restricting her bladder and bowel control. Not to be outdone by her injury, instead it opened a...

Australian netball superstar, Sharelle McMahon talks with Julie McCartin about incontinence amongst netballers and how she learned how to engage her pelvic floor.
Elite netballer, Sharelle McMahon remembers the...

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The mission of the Continence Foundation of Australia is to represent Australians affected by, or at risk of, bladder, bowel and pelvic floor problems as well as their carers, health professionals and continence industry sector.